14-letter words containing u, m, i
- disencumbering — Present participle of disencumber.
- disencumbrance — the removal of an encumbrance
- disequilibrium — lack of equilibrium; imbalance.
- disfigurements — Plural form of disfigurement.
- disfurnishment — the act or quality of disfurnishing
- disgruntlement — to put into a state of sulky dissatisfaction; make discontent.
- dissimilitudes — Plural form of dissimilitude.
- dissimulations — Plural form of dissimulation.
- dissolutionism — the beliefs and practices of dissolutionists
- distemperature — a distempered or disordered condition; disturbance of health, mind, or temper.
- diurnal motion — the apparent daily motion, caused by the earth's rotation, of celestial bodies across the sky.
- documentalists — Plural form of documentalist.
- documentarians — Plural form of documentarian.
- documentations — (very,rare) Plural form of documentation.
- domestic abuse — physical or mental abuse towards a member of one's own household
- domestic court — (in England) a magistrates' court for domestic proceedings, such as matrimonial, guardianship, custodianship, affiliation, or adoption disputes
- double marking — a method of assessment in which two individuals independently mark a test or evaluate a performance
- drummond light — calcium light.
- duchamp-villon — Raymond [re-mawn] /rɛˈmɔ̃/ (Show IPA), 1876–1918, French sculptor (brother of Jacques Villon and Marcel Duchamp).
- dumb insolence — a silent act designed to frustrate a complainer, criticizer, superior etc perhaps involving a refusal to answer them, looking sideways or at other people as they chastise you or ignoring them by continuing what you are doing.
- dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
- dummy variable — a variable appearing in a mathematical expression that can be replaced by any arbitrary variable, not occurring in the expression, without affecting the value of the whole
- dumping ground — dump (def 17).
- dumping-ground — dump (def 17).
- dutch medicine — patent medicine, esp made of herbs
- dysequilibrium — Alternative form of disequilibrium.
- eat humble pie — humility forced upon someone, often under embarrassing conditions; humiliation.
- eleutheromania — A great desire for or obsession with freedom.
- elevator music — recorded popular music played in the background in public places such as elevators, variously regarded as being bland, monotonous, etc.
- empire-builder — a person who seeks extra power for its own sake, esp by increasing the number of his subordinates or staff
- emulsification — The process by which an emulsion is formed.
- enemy-occupied — occupied by a military enemy
- english muffin — crumpet
- estivoautumnal — (mainly US) Variant spelling of 'aestivoautumnal'.
- euclidean norm — (mathematics) The most common norm, calculated by summing the squares of all coordinates and taking the square root. This is the essence of Pythagoras's theorem. In the infinite-dimensional case, the sum is infinite or is replaced with an integral when the number of dimensions is uncountable.
- excommunicated — Simple past tense and past participle of excommunicate.
- excommunicates — Plural form of excommunicate.
- excommunicator — One who excommunicates.
- extinguishment — The act of extinguishing, putting out, or quenching, or the state of being extinguished.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- face the music — an art of sound in time that expresses ideas and emotions in significant forms through the elements of rhythm, melody, harmony, and color.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- family support — a means-tested allowance for families in need
- fancy geranium — a geranium, Pelargonium domesticum, of southern Africa, having roundish clusters of large white, pink, or red flowers.
- faute de mieux — for lack of anything better
- ferrozirconium — a ferroalloy containing up to 40 percent zirconium.
- fideicommissum — a request by a decedent that the heir or legatee to the estate convey a specified part of the estate to another person, or permit another person to enjoy such a part.
- field mushroom — any of various fleshy fungi including the toadstools, puffballs, coral fungi, morels, etc.
- final judgment — judgment (def 8).
- fluid dynamics — the branch of fluid mechanics dealing with the properties of fluids in motion.